Romney's Family Involvement with the Ohio Voting Machines - A Great Cause for Concern

Could a voting machine company with deep financial ties to the Romney family help republicans steal the presidential election in Ohio? It could happen. This year's presidential election will most likely come down to the electoral votes in Ohio. The deciding votes could be cast on electronic voting machines manufactured by Hart Intercivic, the company that makes the machines that will count many of the votes in Ohio on election night.. Recent reports from the RootsAction team reported that Hart Intercivic is majority owned by H.I.G. an investment fund with deep ties to the Romney family and the Mitt Romney for president campaign. H.I.G. capital was founded by Tony Tamer, a major bundler for the Romney campaign, and it is one of the largest partners of Solamere capital, an investment fund founded by Tagg Romney and Spencer Zwick, Mitt Romney's chief fundraiser from the 2008 presidential campaign.

And as if the ties between Tagg Romney's Solamere, Romney contributors at H.I.G. capital and Hart Intercivic weren't astonishing enough, two members of the Hart Intercivic's 5 member board of directors made direct contributions to the Romney campaign. The fact that these machines are easily corruptible touch screen voting machines makes matters even worse. A 2007 study conducted by Ohio's secretary of state showed that Hart Intercivic's touch screen voting machines could be easily corrupted. At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and us hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines. At boards of election, they were able to introduce malignant software into servers. Is this why Romney insist that he WILL win this election?

President Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a tight election race which could very well be decided by Ohio's 18 electoral votes. A petition is now circulating asking the Dept. of Justice not to allow republicans to steal the election in Ohio with Romney-owned voting machines. This petition already has over 300,00 signatures. A serious conflict of interest.